What's a dream tracker?
A dream tracker is the tool you use to document and keep track of your dreams. It’s where you write down and detail the various elements of your dreams.
Dream trackers used to be plain physical journals where you write down your dreams, but with the advent of technologies, they now generally take the form of apps. This makes them much more effective and convenient for dream tracking. The dream tracker Mirror is a prime example of this advancement. With its intelligent features, you can track every element of your dreams, see statistics and uncover key patterns into your subconscious.
How to track your dreams
Step 1. Prepare your dream tracker
First, prepare the night beforehand by leaving your dream tracker next to your bed. This will allow you to capture your dream as soon as you wake up while it’s still fresh in your mind, otherwise you risk forgetting parts of it. Also, tell yourself that you’ll remember your dream tomorrow.
Step 2. Track your dream's content
Second, immediately upon waking up, write down everything you can remember about your dream in your dream tracker. You can use the expanded text view in Mirror to give yourself the space to write your dream down. If you prefer, you can dictate your dream instead of writing using the voice recording feature.
Then, detail the main elements of your dream. For instance, note the emotions you felt, the people you encountered, the places you’ve been, the objects, colors and the storyline you’ve experienced.
By extensively detailing each of your dreams, you’ll amass valuable data about your dream world. In the app, you can see statistics about your dream elements, like the number of times someone appears in your dream.
Step 3. Interpret with your dream tracker
After clearly detailing your dream, the next step is to interpret it. The aim of dream interpretation is to find the psychological meaning behind your dream’s content.
Interpretation starts with self-reflection. Here are three questions you can reflect on:
- What part of yourself is trying to express itself through your dream?
- Can you perceive important connections between your dream and your waking life?
- Which of your typical personality traits and behavioral tendencies were at play in your dream?
You can find more self-reflective questions in the Mirror dream tracker app.
To unlock new paths of interpretation, you can utilize Mirror’s AI. It’s specialized in dream interpretation and is fully personalized to your life context.
Mirror offers a diversified range of dream interpretation techniques to access the meaning of your dreams from different angles like artistic creative expression, active imagination, free association and more.
What’s great about a dream tracker is that it allows you to keep track not only of the content of your dreams, but also your own analysis and interpretations.
To really make the most of your dream tracker, it’s important to look back at your dreams from time to time and reflect on your analysis with a fresh perspective. A dream is a gift that takes more than a lifetime to unwrap. Each time you go back to it, you reveal more of its meaning.
If you’re ready to begin tracking your dreams, download Mirror. Learn more about Mirror here.